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Victory to Defeat : The British Army 1918-40 by Robert Lyman and Richard Dannatt
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN-10
1472860845
ISBN-13
9781472860842
eBay Product ID (ePID)
12067495957
Product Key Features
Book Title
Victory to Defeat : the British Army 1918-40
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2025
Topic
Military / World War II, Military / General, Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, Military / World War I
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
12 Oz
Item Length
7.6 in
Item Width
4.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"The most important book on military history I've read in 5-years. If I could buy a copy for every member of Parliament, I would." -- Justin Maciejewski DSO MBE, Director of the National Army Museum "Both [authors] are former soldiers, Dannatt having ended his career as chief of the general staff; and they bring their military perspective to their account of this vitally important period. As such their work is highly useful...an interesting and well-researched study of a crucial episode." -- Simon Heffer, The Sunday Telegraph "The meat of this book looks at the squandering of the very lessons that delivered victory." -- The Critic "[A] thought provoking book... Robert Lyman is one of the surest, most astute and diligent of military historians writing today." --Allan Mallinson, The Spectator "Powerful and well-researched, Victory to Defeat is a superb example of how history can explain the present and inform the future. Highly recommended." -- Lloyd Clark, author of 'The Commanders' "An unflinching account of how the British Army threw away the hard-earned lessons of the Western Front, only to face defeat and ruin in France in 1940, which sends out a powerful message for our time: we must think deeply about war and warfighting, and support our fighting men and women with all that they need, if we are not to risk another seismic failure on the battlefield. An essential and urgent book." -- Professor Nick Lloyd FRHistS, author of 'The Western Front' "Their analysis is succinct, scholarly, convincing, and, with the largest war since 1945 raging in Europe today, timely. It covers strategy, tactics, resources and capabilities, as one would expect, but also ranges far outside military explanations for the debacle, and will be the standard work on the subject for many years to come." -- Andrew Roberts, author of 'Churchill: Walking with Destiny'
Dewey Decimal
355.0330410904
Table Of Content
List of Illustrations and maps Acknowledgements Introduction: La Forêt de Compiègne Prologue: Calais, 1940 PART ONE: THE GREAT WAR Chapter 1: The Kaiserschlacht and its consequences Chapter 2: Confronting the enormity of the Great War on the front line Chapter 3: Finding a way through the mud and the blood to the green fields beyond Chapter 4: Masters of the battlefield, 1918 PART TWO: POST WAR AND INTER WAR Chapter 5: Peace, and derangement Chapter 6: Old and new post-bellum responsibilities - and the Irish Question Chapter 7: Imperial policeman versus continental commitment Chapter 8: The modern major general: more categorical or allegorical? Chapter 9: What is the army for, and how should it fight? Chapter 10: The battle of the tank Chapter 11: Britain faces a rapidly changing world PART THREE: NEW THREATS AND NEW REALITIES Chapter 12: Boiling the frog: the rise of the Nazi threat Chapter 13: The slow rush to rearm Chapter 14: Feeding the crocodile PART FOUR: THE END OF THE BEGINNING Chapter 15: The empire declares war Chapter 16: The chickens come home to roost Chapter 17: Sichelschnitt: the anatomy of disaster Epilogue: El Alamein and beyond Appendix: Chiefs of the Imperial General Staff 1915-46 Notes Suggestions for further reading Index
Synopsis
'A compelling history.' - The Sunday Times 'Thought-provoking.' - The Spectator 'Interesting and well-researched.' - The Sunday Telegraph A compelling history of the decline of an army from the triumph of victory in 1918 to defeat in 1940 and why this happened. A salutary warning for modern Britain. The British Army won a convincing series of victories between 1916 and 1918. But by 1939 the British Army was an entirely different animal. The hard-won knowledge, experience and strategic vision that delivered victory after victory in the closing stages of the First World War had been lost. In the inter-war years there was plenty of talking, but very little focus on who Britain might have to fight, and how . Victory to Defeat clearly illustrates how the British Army wasn't prepared to fight a first-class European Army in 1939 for the simple reason that as a country Britain hadn't prepared itself to do so. The failure of the army's leadership led directly to its abysmal performance in Norway and France in 1940. Victory to Defeat is a captivating history of the mismanagement of a war-winning army. It is also a stark warning that we neglect to understand who our enemy might be, and how to defeat him, at the peril of our country. The British Army is now to be cut to its smallest size since 1714. Are we, this book asks, repeating the same mistakes again?, A fascinating account of the decline of an army from the triumph of victory in 1918 to defeat in 1940 and why this happened. A salutary warning for modern Britain.
LC Classification Number
UA649.D3 2023
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